books about: aphorisms

books about: aphorisms

books:

Aphorisms

Essays and Aphorisms (The Penguin Classics)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Penguin Classics, 1973

with persistance and arrogance, brain and bile ...
Schopenhauer's father committed suicide. Son Arthur had been very devoted to his father Heinrich Floris. The high-sensitive son could not deal with the fact, that his mother Johanna had preferred to talk with Goethe in her Weimar Literary Salon instead of helping her ...

Oxford Book of Aphorisms

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

An excellent collection
Like most collections of aphorisms this one is rich in helpful thoughts. These thoughts inspire and give birth to new thoughts. 1) Aphorisms of others ideally inspire aphorisms of our own. 2) Aphorisms help make our minds more interesting. 3) It is senseless to read ...

How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood, ...

Vedanta Press & Bookshop, 2007

Union with God
This book teaches yoga in its true form. Yoga in America is not the same; it is Hatha Yoga that is used solely to have a healthier body. It is godless yoga. The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali reminds us the goal of yoga. How did the Western world forget that yoga means ...

Smitten: A Kitten's Guide to Happiness

Rachael Hale

Bulfinch, 2006

Great Book
An absolute fabulous book. The pictures are amazing and the words are uplifting. A must for every cat lover!

The Zürau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Schocken, 2006

Heroism
Writing about Kafka is just as difficult and always more useless (in the Kafka-esque sense) than reading Kafka. Really the only people who ought to be allowed to write about Kafka are those who live in caves or at the bottom of wells or in high mountain towers and ...

Reflections on the Human Condition

Eric Hoffer

Hopewell Publications, 2006

MADE IN USA: From Longshoremen to Social Thinker
Eric Hoffer is, quite simply, a rare find. Only in America could a longshoreman become one of the most profound of contemporary social Philosophers; this is true of Hoffer. In very much the spirit of an Albert Einstein,who labored anonymously and in thankless tedium as ...

Alfarabi, The Political Writings: Selected Aphorisms and Other Texts (Agora Editions)
Alfarabi

Cornell University Press, 2004

Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish philosophy. This volume presents four of Alfarabi's most important texts, making his ...

Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

James Geary

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

Excellent collection, good for inspiration
I originally purchased this book for help in writing my wedding vow. I didn't use it for that but find myself cracking it open for inspiration quite frequently. The index in the back is quite useful when one needs to find aphorisms for a certain specific subject. All ...

Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

Walter Benjamin

Schocken, 1986

A Portable Benjamin
There is much to love about Walter Benjamin. His is a supple, syncretic, synthetic mind, and his prose just sings-even in translation. Because Benjamin roamed about in whole territorities of thought, it's nearly impossible to draw together a representative selection ...

The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

Eric Hoffer

Hopewell Publications, 2006

A brilliant follow-up to a classic
Eric Hoffer penned this book of aphorisms shortly after "The True Believer," undoubtably his masterpiece study on the psychology of mass movements and those who partake in them. This collection provides a similar challenge to the reader, as it takes poignant stabs ...

Almost a Foreign Country: A Personal Geography in Columns and Aphorisms

Manfred Wolf

iUniverse.com, 2008

Excellent advice on love and life
Columnist Manfred Wolf has taken the very best of his many essays and related writings and brought to fortunate readers his wit, insight, wisdom and great true-to-life story-telling in "Almost a Foreign Country." These pieces, from several decades, comment on events ...

The Waste Books (New York Review Books Classics)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

NYRB Classics, 2000

Refreshing
Lichtenberg truly observes and thinks, forgive my cliched phrase, with a child's wonder. Thinking and Observing are, for him, downright entertainment not, as for most of us, labour-work. Even such strict critics as Schopenhauer and Nietszche have to off-hat to this ...

Zelda's Bloopers: The Good, the Bad, and the Whatever
Carol Gardner, Shane Young

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005

"To err is human . . . but it feels divine," said the inimitable Mae West, and how right she was. Zelda's Bloopers: The Good, the Bad, and the Whatever offers up Zelda in some of her irresistible moments where she manages to make lemonade out of the "lemons." Zelda's Bloopers is the sixth book from this 60-pound wrinkled marvel of wisdom and ...

Herakleitos and Diogenes

Grey Fox Press, 2001

History's first punk
Before grunge, before punk, before monks renouncing this "evil world" for the purity of the desert, there was Diogenes. If Plato codified and, to some extent, "created" Western philosophy, then Diogenes lit a stink bomb at Plato's Academy and sent all the earnest ...

The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary

Heraclitus

Cambridge University Press, 1981

The foundation of all Western thought......
Devoid of all "Slave Morality" influences from Semitic thinking, Heraclitus is pure European thought at its finest. It's usually proclaimed, that all Western philosophies are but a footnote to Plato. I disagree. Even Plato is subjected to Heraclitus. These ...